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On Being Ethnic: The Politics of Identity Breaking and Making in Canada, or, Nevra on Sunday
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On Being Ethnic: The Politics of Identity Breaking and Making in Canada, or, Nevra on Sunday
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| Abstract |
The author examines the lives of eighty-three first generation Greek women in Montreal to illustrate how class and gender are as relevant to the immigrant experience as is ethnicity. She shows how values which were central to female identity in Greece can become a liability after immigration and how the notion of Greek identity in Canada is a fluid category which is subject to repeated transformations. She concludes by suggesting that medical anthropologists who ignore the complexity of social categories and whose focus is limited to the cultural construction of illness and the expression of distress are in danger of reinforcing a notion of the "quaint ethnic," a stereotype to which the concept of multiculturalism is often reduced.
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Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
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Vol. 14
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no. 2
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237-254
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1990
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en
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| Citation |
Lock, Margaret. “On Being Ethnic: The Politics of Identity Breaking and Making in Canada, or, Nevra on Sunday.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Vol. 14, no. 2 (1990): 237–254.
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